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Could an old triumph be coming back to haunt the Clintonites who are joining President-elect Barack Obama's staff? If there's one foreign policy achievement that Clintonites are proud of, it's Bosnia. Some 13 years ago, during Bill Clinton's second term, a U.S.-led military intervention stopped the carnage in the former Yugoslav republic, followed by a peace deal forged by then Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke and signed in Dayton, Ohio. The deal, which carved Bosnia into two ethnically based statelets while retaining a weak common government, was so successful that vice-president-elect...
...moment of triumph this week for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the U.N. court in Arusha, Tanzania, set up to bring the perpetrators of the genocide to justice. Bagosora, the senior Defense Ministry official of Rwanda who allegedly put the killing in motion in those first, crucial days of April 1994, was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity, and sentenced to life imprisonment. No country has agreed to incarcerate him but many of the ICTR's convicts are now being held in Mali. (See the Top 10 Underreported Stories...
...limited triumph in getting his students to write "self-portraits," which reveal them, on the whole, to be addled by pop music, soccer, video games and hanging out in the hood. The emotional climax of the film comes when, angered by the behavior of two of his female students, who sit on a sort of school governing board, he tells them they're acting like "skanks." They deliberately misread his remark - no he didn't actually call them a bad name, which they take to be a synonym for "whores" - but it doesn't matter. There's a classroom confrontation...
...credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again ... who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly...
...Chinese leadership's annual work meeting on economic policy concluded Wednesday with a note of triumph. The country's steady growth has "demonstrated the overall national strength China had built over the past three decades, proved the correctness of socialism with Chinese characteristics and justified the advantage of a socialist institution in pooling various forces to realize big feats," the state-run Xinhua news service declared. See Top 10 Best Business Deals...